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...with cool blue eyes, was taking his bar exam in 1917 when favorable word came on his application for a Marine Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...
...World War II, Japan's Ohmi Silk Spinning Co. was a down-at-heel outfit whose seven ramshackle wooden factories, taken all together, were worth less than $30,000. Today, after seven years of operating under Japan's newly liberalized labor laws, Ohmi has grown into a $3,000,000 corporation, whose 13,000 employees and half a million humming spindles have helped push it up to sixth place in Japan's vital yarn industry. The formula by which Ohmi's boss, fat, arrogant Kakuji Natsukawa, has achieved this success is simple: he has paid little...
This sort of platform has disadvantages: it must be big enough (up to 200 feet long) to support all the massive gear of a drilling outfit as well as quarters for the crew and storage space for fuel, water, pipe and other supplies. Its size makes it expensive, and its salvage value, if it has to be moved, is very...
Platform & Tender. A more advanced kind of platform is made only big enough to support the drilling machinery. The rest of the outfit, including crew quarters and all supplies, is carried in a tender: a good-sized ship tethered close to the platform. Pipes and other heavy objects are swung across by a sling running on thick cables. Liquid necessities travel in flexible hoses. If a hurricane approaches, the tender can take all hands on board and run for shelter. A rig of this type, belonging to Gulf Oil Corp., is now drilling off Corpus Christi, Texas in 67 feet...
...Cities. More startling proposals, e.g., a giant diving bell containing a drilling outfit worked by remote control, are current among the offshore oilmen, but the responsible heads of the oil companies point out that drilling is only a part of the oil-producing business. The wells must be kept cleaned out; the oil must be freed of water, gas and sand, and brought ashore in pipelines. The crews must be housed and fed. All this is enormously expensive, with boats plying continually among the well platforms, special bases to service the boats, and radars to guide them in foggy weather...